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miguel, thanks very much, have a great weekend. remember, you can always follow us on twitter @wolfblitzer. tweet me whenever you want. thanks for joining us. erin burnett "outfront" starts right now. "outfront" next, when it comes to america's troops, is president obama calling the shots, or is hamid karzai? plus, losing steam and almost out of money, is the tea party dead? and the man accused of murdering 12 people at a colorado movie theater is ordered to stand trial. his lawyers say he's mentally ill. but does it add up? let's go "outfront." >> good evening, everyone, i'm erin burnett. outfront tonight, who's calling the shots? president obama or hamid karzai? obama's mixed messages as to when american troops might come home from the country's longest war in afghanistan raise more

questions. here's what president obama said today after meeting with karzai in washington. >> we've already reduced our presence in afghanistan to roughly 66,000 u.s. troops. i've pledged we'll continue to bring our forces home at a steady pace and in the coming months i'll announce the next phase of our drawdown. a responsible drawdown that protects the gains our troops have made. >> in the coming months, the decision on troops is months away. all right, let's rewind one month. here's what defense secretary leon panetta said then. >> the size of that enduring presence is something that the president is going to be considering over the next few weeks. >> next few weeks, not months. he said that over a month ago. how about two months ago? speaking of the troop count decision, secretary panetta told reporters in november, my hope is we'll be able to complete this process in the next few weeks. two months ago it was weeks, four weeks after that, it was

still weeks and now it's months. roeland martin is a contributor. good to see both of you. and in a week where the president has been questioned for nominated chuck hagel for defense secretary, would it have helped the president to take a stronger stance on this issue today? either telling the country the troop count or being open of the fact of, hey, look, we're not on the schedule to announce this and telling the public why. >> no, at the end of the day, you go through your evaluations. i talked to a three-star general who served in afghanistan who made it perfectly clear that these are delicate situations, you're still dealing with a country where we're trying to get the security forces up to par. you also don't just want to just make some kind of announcement without thinking it through. i talked to a senior administration official who said to lead 10,000 troops in afghanistan could cost us $30 billion a year. the president also has to make an economic decision, as well. so, look, if panetta is saying i

want it done in weeks and the president is simply saying i'm going to take a few more months, i say take your time because you're dealing with the lives of american troops. >> that's a fair point. of course, the time -- the clock is ticking, the united states says it's going to withdraw in 2014. it's knot just the delay on troop numbers that had us asking questions today. today the president gave a reason for the delay. said, look, i haven't given recommendations yet for general john allen. here's what the president said. >> i'm going to be over the coming weeks getting recommendations from general allen and other commanders on the ground. >> all right a month ago when i spoke with secretary panetta, he agreed general allen was the one responsible but said the options were already ready at that time a month ago. >> general allen having developed a campaign plan is the one who really has to come

forward with the recommendation what the enduring presence will look like. >> prepared several options, those options were indeed presented. three levels of troop levels, the pentagon offered three alternatives and ben rhodes this week actually commented on the number saying the number could possibly be zero. what more recommendations is the president waiting for? >> you'll notice on the full screen we saw that john allen is talking about numbers in the range of six to about 20,000, so the president is talking about in the range of 3,000 to 9,000. that's a big, big gap and that translates into a big difference in the kind of forced posture we have in afghanistan. if you have somewhere in the neighborhood of 3,000 to 9,000 troops, that really translates into having troops on two different bases. and those bases are likely to be very far away from the provinces in the eastern part of afghanistan where the thick of the fighting happens. the whole premise of our presence in afghanistan we're going to help the afghan forces

be able to stand up and prevent a taliban takeover. the problem is that if we're not embedded with those afghan forces, we're going to see a big flare-up of civil war in that country again. now, that might be what we have to do. maybe it's too expensive for us to be there, but i don't think president obama is comfortable fully acknowledging the kind of choice we face. if we go with the small troop levels, maybe that's what we need to do. that means we're not going to be able to have the presence that's going to prevent a real breakout of civil war. >> is it possible the president has already indicated what his decision's going to be, not just as he said, the troop levels perceived by the pentagon. but also by choosing chuck hagel as his next defense secretary. >> first of all, remember, the numbers being presented by the pentagon are not necessarily what is coming from the white house. and so we can't simply make that assumption. the generals have their plan, you can have vice president biden others saying, look, let's force people to go through the

procedure or the process of, defend the numbers, why should we be at these levels? here's the other piece as it relates to hagel. we don't know how long that confirmation process is going to take. and so, again, this might be the president simply saying let's bring him onboard because i want to see what his thoughts are, as well. i go back to the most basic fundamental thing here. we can say decision in weeks, tame ti take time in months, we are dealing with human beings with families, wives, children. the president should take as much time as possible, they might be there for a while. the last thing we want is a rush decision. >> there's another way to look at it, when you're delaying laying out a strategy, that poses dangers for our military presence and for the afghan people. i think that, i understand where roland is coming from, but i think there are dangers to not having a clear strategy, as well. it's a tradeoff. >> let me ask you about something important here.

obviously the clear tension between president obama and karzai, who's in charge here? today karzai said the issue of immunity is very important to the united states, it's crucial to the united states. when we weren't given immunity in iraq, the united states withdrew completely. al qaeda-linked groups, violence has risen. a lot of people said, look, the u.s. should've stayed in. what's he doing when he says that? i'll go to the afghan people and i'll put forth your immunity question to them. he's known this is crucial for a very long time. >> yeah. >> him saying that today, what's he saying to the president? >> well, you know what he's saying is he's being -- well, i think the perception on the american side is that he's being slippery as he so often is. the perception on the american side is, look, hamid karzai's government has a tremendous amount of corruption and not a tremendous amount of legitimacy with the afghan people. that has made him a weak partner for the american side. so that's part of why, you know, to present a tougher face that might lend him some greater legitimacy with the afghans, but he's a terrible partner for the

americans to work with and that's why a lot of americans are saying we've got to throw up our hands. we don't have a reliable partner in kabul. >> erin, very quick, it's simple, he's the president of that country. we may want a different type of leader, but he is the president, we have to work with what we have. also, administration officials said in that meeting today, there were a number of things they asked of karzai that he actually agreed to. this whole notion of who is in charge, the president of the united states, we can try to dictate as much as we want to, but you have a sitting president in afghanistan who we have to deal with. and so you take the good with the bad, you take the bumps but also the great opportunities. >> thanks very much to both of you. we appreciate it. and still to come, losing support and money is the tea party about to implode? plus, a bioterror expert says america is due for a pandemic and is not ready for it. and one of britain's tv stars committed more than 200 sex crimes. ♪

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our second story outfront. is the tea party dead? it's been a rough few months, losing a battle over the fiscal cliff, and now, one tea party leader admitting to politico,

quote, there's not enough money. erick erickson, an influential republican, and amy cramer. and i know you and i have talked a lot over the past year plus coming through this election and now here we are a year later, "politico" reporting that the tea party is struggling for money and asking all kinds of groups it hasn't always considered to be a friend. american majority, club for growth and the koch brothers, asking all of them for money. is the tea party going to have to compromise its principles in order to survive? >> no, erin, i don't think we are going to have to compromise our principles. look, if you look back to 2010 when the tea party movement drove the messaging, we won, we had huge victories across the country. when you look at 2012 and the republican party driving the messaging in a presidential election cycle, we lost, not only conservatives but moderates, as well. so i think we need to go back to that message of fiscal responsibility.

because the american people want fiscal responsibility. they want washington to live within their means just like small businesses that american families and organizations have to every single day. and so i think that's our message that wins. and we're still here, we're not going anywhere. >> all right. i want to ask you about something. i have something you said to me a year ago on a plane for a moment. but first, erick, your comment about the tea party being in disarray. as you're well aware, in 2010 you seemed, at least, from who you supported to feel a bit differently. joe miller from alaska, you said i so totally have a man crush on this dude. and even when they lost you cheered them saying we did exactly what we set out to do, crush the establishment backed gop candidate. are you being a little bit of a fair-weather friend? i'm just wondering. >> no, no, it's interesting how the media likes to portray these situations. i'm a big supporter of the tea party. my problem is i think given the

finances and situations, there's a lot of people on the outside who it's time for them to come to the inside. they can't say oh, we can go third party or what have you. the biggest threat to the tea party is the republican establishment not the democrats. they need to continue what they're doing, but there is a lot of burnout right now, i think. there aren't any issues that are exciting the tea party yet, but they'll come back. it's just they need to focus on continuing to beat up republicans. and remember that the republicans aren't their friends any more than the democrats are. >> you're going to make sure. you keep acting that way, you'll end up never getting another republican in the white house again. is your party going to be split? >> no, i don't think that's true at all. i think the tea party can rally around people and they will in some cases have to compromise to find the candidate they want. but they need to clean up the republican party. look, you've got two big government parties in washington right now. neither party is really serious about cutting spending. the tea party needs to go after republicans who say they're in favor of cutting government but

actually grow government. >> and let me ask you back in october of 2011, october 18th, we were out in las vegas together and i asked you if the tea party was defined by spending cuts and at that time it appeared that it was. and i want to play exactly how you responded to that question. here you are then. >> okay. >> if you text all the rich in this country, all of their money, it's not enough to pay for everybody. at some point, you have to cut the spending and that's what we want washington to do. and we are absolutely driving that debate. >> and you know what, amy, you were driving that debate. and a lot of the spending cuts i've heard republicans and democrats say, look, that credit has to go to the tea party. now it appears that things have changed. the fiscal cliff deal was an increase in taxes. that's what it was. what happened to driving the debate? >> but the thing is, erin, we're still driving the debate. before the tea party movement was here, no one was talking about spending cuts. everybody, you know, was going about washington business as

usual. we have absolutely driven that debate. and we're not going to give up. in august of 2011, we had the big debt ceiling debate, we're going to have another one. at the end of the day, we have to rein in the spending, we have $16 trillion in debt. most people cannot fathom how much even $1 million is let alone a trillion. so when we have $16 trillion in debt and we're spending $1.4 trillion or $1.6 trillion more every single year than we're bringing in, it is a real issue that needs to be dealt with. and the bottom line is, these people, it doesn't matter what party they're in, they're going to washington, they're being elected by we, the people, they work for us and they're going to washington and not doing their job. this fiscal cliff deal, they had three to six minutes to read the bill. that is not acceptable. and again, it's not about party politics. but you know what? i'm going to say this, erick is

right, there's a problem, the tea party movement was born out of frustration with both political parties but especially the republican party and i would say that we're the threat to the republican party and we do, you can't change it from the outside. you have to change it from the inside. and look at what just happened. ted cruz, a great, great true fiscal conservative, a constitutionalist who elected the senator from the state of texas. he was put in as the vice chairman of the nrsc, and you know what? that is a victory for us. because the only way we're going to change it is to change it from within, we can't change it from the outside. >> fair point. but you had others who didn't win and john boehner and the rest of the republicans who voted for that fiscal cliff deal, paul ryan, those guys repudiated the tea party. that's really the truth here. the tea party might have been able to hold that vote hostage six months ago, a year ago, they didn't this time.

that was a big blow. no other way to put it. >> no, i don't necessarily would agree with your characterization. yeah, paul ryan and the leadership did, but the plan "b" died as a result of tea party-backed members of congress. they had to get certain tea party-backed members to get along with them this time and some of those guys are back pedaling. you've got aaron schott of illinois saying it's a lie to claim he voted for a tax increase and don't believe the tea party. they'll hold him account financial for it and the debt ceiling will be the next fight. >> thanks very much to both of you. we shall see what happens from here. and after a series of technical failures, the faa announced it is investigating boeing's biggest bet. its dream liner 787. and the shooter responsible for the aurora movie theater massacre might plead insanity. how that could put him free. back on the street.

our third story out front, the dream liner nightmare. today the federal aviation administration announced an investigation into boeing's 787 dream liner. this is after a week of some really high-profile problems including a fire and fuel leak and electrical failure. the dream liner is boeing's latest jet. news of the probes sent the stock price down sharply 2.5%. outfront tonight, sandra endo with a look at what has gone so wrong. >> boeing's dreamliner was for

years just that. a plane made of plastic, a fuel sipper with huge windows, big seats, the plane of the future. >> it was supposed to be, you know, the best thing since sliced bread. >> but a totally new plane run almost entirely by electronics didn't just push the limits and change aviation, it created a whole new learning curve for the industry. the dreamliner was delayed and struggled from day one. the first dreamliner delivered in 2011 was three years behind schedule. the 787's maiden flight was touted in 2007. but after four years of troubling delays, its first flight finally took off on an overcast day in seattle. at first, airlines fell in love. 57 companies ordered the dreamliner at a cost of more than $200 million each. but the plane is struggling,

just this week, a fire, a fuel leak, an electrical malfunction and a cracked cockpit window were found on different dreamliners. the faa is now reviewing the plane's certification. >> there've been no common denominator between the incidents, so it is unusual they've taken such a drastic step, but i'm glad they have because the public needs to be reassured that the airplane is safe. >> the dreamliner was supposed to cement america's dominance of the sky forever. >> and they all have their teething pains. it just seems this one here, they seem to be coming all at once. >> boeing is used to winning. it's america's biggest exporter. in many ways, america's most important company, a symbol of national pride. but with a federal review of its marquee plane, the future of the signature aircraft is in jeopardy. >> thanks very much to sandra. and still to come

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welcome back to the second half of "outfront," we start with stories where we focus on

our reporting from the front lines. we begin with the centers for disease control which says the spread of flu across the united states appears to have slowed. 24 states and new york city reported high levels of activity last week, that's down from 29 states the prior week. but, officials say they won't know for weeks if flu activity has peaked or not. randall larson tells outfront an outbreak as serious as the flu of 1918 in which 50 million people were killed worldwide is not out of the question. he also warns the united states is not prepared for that. well, for years, king alabaabdu abdullah has vowed to expand the rights of women. while the rules remain strict for women in practice, king abdullah for the first time has appointed 30 women to the council, the top advisory body. isabel coleman tells "outfront" some people will dismiss the move as window dressing, but she says if you add together some of

the other steps made for women's rights in the country, incremental as they are, you'll see something more substantial for women's progress developing. well, another high-profile woman has left the west wing, this time nancy deparle says she's going to leave at the inauguration to join the brookings institution. there's been a whole lot of talk this week and diversity and president obama's cabinet. we showed you this photo on wednesday which showed the president meeting with his staff in the oval office. you'll see deparle sitting on the couch to the right. and louisiana governor bobby jindal says he will propose a new piece of gun legislation for his state focusing on mental health. right now, the federal government operates a data base. we've talked about it this week. it's called the national instant criminal background check system. if severe mental health illnesses from buying a gun. the problem is, fewer than 20 states have laws that actually require them to report mental

health eligibility to the data base. louisiana would become one of these states if jindal gets his way. in a statement, jindal says the proposal is a common sense way to protect our kids, our families and our loved ones. >> it has been 526 days since the u.s. lost the top credit rating. that count is getting awfully high, people. the auto industry, specifically ford, the one that didn't need a bailout. ford announced it's going to hire more than 2,000 salaried employees in america today. now the fourth story "outfront," a colorado judge has ruled there is enough evidence for 25-year-old james holmes to face trial for killing 12 and wounding 58 in the july 28th massacre at an aurora colorado movie theater. the question tonight, will the former neuroscience grad enter an insanity plea? the judge delayed today's arraignment until march and did that to give the defense more time to consider the evidence.

tom teeves' son alex was killed in the shooting jumped in front of his girl friend saving her life. his father was at the preliminary hearing in colorado this week and right before the show, i asked him what it was like to sit in the same room as james holmes. >> he murdered my son. as long as he stays locked up, i'll be fine. if he doesn't, i don't think he has any right to ever walk the streets, that's for sure. >> now, the courtroom was divided, the press couldn't see james holmes, but you could, how did he look? >> he has absolutely no interest or compassion for human beings, but he really digs guns, he really, really digs all the bombs he made, and the one human being he really dug, he was delighted when he saw the pictures of himself on the cell phones. the individual's evil, he's not crazy.

>> when they showed the pictures on the cell phones, the picture of himself? >> without question. i never took my eyes off of him. to see some of the evidence i had to stay after court and have them re-show it to me because i had no interest in the evidence. i wanted to see his reactions, and he's a very, very intelligent person. if you read through the evidence, just what he did in his apartment took months and months of planning. and you and i couldn't do it. at one point he created a compound that's very, very explosive by i think getting aluminum and iron rods, shaving them down, then making the iron rust and then mixing that together. and whenever he saw any of that, you could see the reaction in his face. you can sometimes -- and a couple of times when he saw himself his lips smile. and he was very, very intent. the sad thing was when the 911 calls came on, it was almost like he could've cared less because people aren't real

things to him. he's just evil, no the crazy, though, you don't take that much time planning that much of a -- of a diversion so that you don't get caught if you're crazy. if you're crazy, you grab a gun and walk into a mall and start shooting people because you don't think it's wrong. >> so you were sitting there with other victims' families and victims themselves. did he make eye contact with any of you? >> no, he never -- that's part of his schtick, right? he looked once at his attorney, and his attorney and him get along and it's kind of sad for me, but they're laughing at the bench, the attorneys with him. but he looked at his attorney once and caught my eye and quickly turned his head and went the other way. i sat in a spot where i could see him the whole time. i had an intention of not losing my gaze. >> the judge ruled today, of course, there is enough evidence for him to stand trial. now the defense, of course, they could try to show that he is insane, and not mentally fit to stand trial.

i clearly you don't agree with that. >> absolutely, not. if you're insane, you don't think what you're doing is wrong, if you don't think what you're doing is wrong, then you don't have any need to create a diversion that will keep the first responders from stopping you and/or capturing you. and also, one of the things they put in there is he had on his dating site because he had two dating sites that said come visit me in jail. if you don't think it's wrong, you probably don't think you're going to jail. >> wow. this has got to be hard for you. i know you're catholic and i know that's important to you. so how have you come to terms with the possibility of the death penalty here? >> it is a struggle to be honest with you. but i don't want that man on the street going out and killing your child because he will do it again when he's -- when they talked about the people, he

could've cared less, they were objects to him. but the guns and the explosives were living things. >> if you had a chance -- >> the only person he knows is himself. sorry. >> if you had a chance to -- no, that's all right. if you had a chance to talk to him, to have had a direct conversation at this point. i'm sure you thought a lot about this, what would you say to him? >> i have no interest in speaking to him. my interest is to put him either in a cell for the rest of his life or someone to exterminate him. >> all right. well, thank you very much for taking the time. you're in our thoughts for the tragedy that has happened to your life and your family. >> i appreciate it. >> and now i want to bring jared boyle into the investigation. thanks so much for taking the time. you just heard tom teeves there, he lost his son, what does the defense need to show?

if they can successfully prove that james holmes is insane? >> well, first of all, it's going to be very difficult to prove that. the only -- the only thing you can look at is if you have first rate doctors who come aboard and say that somebody was insane at the time of a commission of an offense, you might have a chance. they're not going to find that in this case. certainly anything credible. even if the defense comes up with doctors, you can be assured the state and in the state of wisconsin where i am, the court appoints impartial doctors they call them. if they're not all onboard, a jury is not going to buy insanity. and the poor gentleman that talked, he was very articulate, very, very bright, he's absolutely right. this was too much planning on this one. i think the lawyers are going to have a tough time. but, let me make it clear, a lawyer doesn't have a vote on it. he's got to represent the person and if he thinks there's a

mental illness, he's got to go forward with it. it isn't something lawyers can turn their back on, that's not what the law requires. >> you talk about this evidence of planning and obviously tom teeves was talking about that too. there were photos on his phone, some days, some weeks before the actual killing, wires fireworks shells, bomb-making materials. you know, he had bought tear gas grenades on the internet. they had shown all of this. to the layperson, it would seem that part of the definition of insanity you don't know right from wrong, if you've gone into the planning and hidden it from other people, you did know right from wrong. am i oversimplifying this? >> no, not at all, erin, thatst going to be the major hurdle the defense would have, and dahmer the state successfully argued that he killed 15 people, he planned every one of them. hep went out and found them

where different places, brought them back to his apartment. he had the drink ready to cause them to become unconscious. he had everything figured out. the thing with dahmer, though, as time progressed, it was clear he was going into a psychotic state. there's no question about it. because just his conduct showed it. but this man, whatever you want to call him in colorado, he h had -- he had no such background. he just, i think, showed that he was evil. he just had a plan to commit an evil act. and that's the thing that people don't understand. this guy will never walk the streets again no matter what. he'll be in a hospital, they'll never certify him to be able to walk the streets again. >> you're sure of that? if he pleads not guilty by reason of insanity and the state can't prove he's sane, he would get evaluated every six months, and if at one point they say he's better, he could walk. you say there's no way to do it?

>> i've been here doing this stuff for 50 years, both as a prosecutor and defense lawyer and i've never seen anybody who was found insane who has a right to have a hearing every six months ever get out. >> and one final question, during the interrogation, they were saying when he was first found outside the movie theater, he was said to be making puppets with paper bags and placed over his hands. some of the victims have said this was staged. can you fake mental illness to the extent that you could be ruled insane at a trial? >> many have tried it. nobody has succeeded. these doctors are too smart. they know when they're trying to fake it. they catch them. it's the easiest thing in the world for them to do. lawyers can catch them. i've caught them lying, trying to fake a mental illness. but there are people that seriously are mentally ill and

don't know what they're doing when they do something bizarre. and those people should be treated in a mental -- prison mental hospital. they shouldn't be -- they'll never be freed, but if we can cure them, we cure them. but nobody who has done the type of thing that this fella did is ever going to see daylight. it's not going to happen. because all a judge will hear is from one doctor that says that he is still a threat to others, that'll be it. and nobody is going to say this guy is not going to be a threat to others. so i don't think he'll ever see daylight again. >> all right. well, thank you very much, gerry, for taking the time to share that with us tonight. certainly something that victims and victims families would feel incredibly relieved to hear from him. police say one of britain's biggest tv stars committed more than 200 sex crimes during his lifetime and many of his victims were young children. and almost a year since a cruise ship ran aground off the

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we're back with tonight's outer circle where we reach out to our sources around the world. and tonight, we follow a developing story we have been covering closely, molly. the pentagon is now considering getting involved in the country's fight to push islamic insurgents out. the islamists have spread terror

through the country. nearly half million malians have fled, and tonight the malian government says it has retaken a crucial town. >> reporter: erin, mali requested emergency assistance from france after the fall of the strategic northern city of kona on thursday. they are now pushing toward the capital and it's clear that they would not have made this plea if the country were not in dire straits. on friday, the french president responded saying french foreign forces were assisting. and the prime minister said france conducted air strikes against rebel forces. now, while african-led troops have been scheduled to send 3,000 soldiers to the country in september, it looks as if the situation requires something

much more urgent. >> thanks very much to vlad for reporting for us in west africa. and detectives calling the sex abuse scandal involving one of britain's biggest television stars unprecedented. it is disturbing and horrible. according to a new report, jimmy savile who died in 2011 committed more than 200 sex crimes, many of his victims were children and teenagers. matthew chance is in london with details of the reports that has sparked outrage around the world. >> here we go. >> reporter: for decades, he was the face of children's television in britain. a tireless charity fundraiser and friend to the country's elite. but after a 14-week investigation, the british police say it was all a veil behind which jimmy savile carried out decades of abuse. >> he exploited his celebrity status. he traded on the currency of celebrity to get himself almost unprecedented access to our institutions, to our hospitals,

to our schools, and there he took advantage of the most vulnerable in society. adults and children although sadly primarily children. and for his own sexual gratification abused them. >> and figures revealed by the new police reports show how prolific an offender savile really was. over a period spanning more than half a century, police say they received 450 complaints about savile, 214 cases have been formally reported as abuse including 34 rapes. the report says 73% of the victims were children at the time of the abuse. but that those abused ranged in age from just 8 years old to 47. it was with popular kids shows like "jim will fix it" that he established himself as the leading british children's entertainer of his generation. a number of children who appeared on the show have since complained of abuse.

what at the time may have seemed like some innocent fun on the set of top of the pops, a leading bbc music show also hosted by savile now appears deeply disturbing. >> this whole sordid affair according to police here at scotland yard underlines the tragic consequences of when power and vulnerability collide. police say victims were silenced for decades because of fear, shame, and the sheer celebrity of the offender jimmy savile. >> there may have been a positive impact. so many victims have spoken out about their ordeal at the hands of him, support groups say it may have fundamentally changed the way britain deals with abuse. >> it does send out a clear signal that victims don't need to remain silent any longer. and i think that will make people who are contemplating abusing children or others think twice because no longer are we going to keep quiet about this. we're going to speak out, go to

the authorities and the authorities are telling us they are going to take firm action. because in the past, yes, you're quite right, most of us have takenve taken this seriously. society generally hasn't and there hasn't been enough to prosecute offenders and bring people to bear. >> if only attitudes had been different in pastimes, say police. savile in plain sight could have been brought to justice. matthew chance, cnn, london. now to a story out front. it's been nearly a year since the "costa concordia" ran aground. later this month the captain could be indicted for his role in the chaos. nothing has happened as of yet. the other question is, have industry wide standards gotten better. miguel marquez is out front with that story. >> reporter: a world turned

upside down. a luxury cruise liner strikes a massive rock. it shudders to a stop. begins listing heavily, then starts to sink. >> the fear was -- basically it was terrifying to a point because especially with really terrified is how -- when panic started. >> they and their two daughters were among the 4200 passengers and crew aboard the "costa concordia." 32 people died that night. the annani family waiting over five hours for rescue said their good-byes thinking they would perrish. one investigation found the captain frances checesco schett failed to take action. >> reporter: while changes to procedure and technology have been made to the cruise line and

across the industry, some say it's not enough. industry watcher cruise critic says standards of employment training and evaluation of cruise line set can be better and be made more consistent. any day now an italian prosecutor is expected to request that nine concordia officers and crew, including the ship's captain, face criminal charges. today the "costa concordia" is a fixture on the landscape. on google earth it looks like a surreal manmade island. the crews hope to remove it this summer. >> miguel is with me now. what sorts of things have changed for the industry. when you look at technology, anything to make it safer. >> yeah, the costa cruise line has put in more safety measures.

there's more life vests, tying down heavy objects and doing the muster drills, emergency drills before the ship leaves port. there are more reports to come from agencies. we may see more changes to the industry ahead, aaron. >> miguel, what about the company. when you say they've made some specific changes on gps. the company that owns the "costa concordia", i'm trying to remember where i was, some cruises they were trying to launch, i think it was in the middle east. how has this affected their business? >> carnival owns the costa line, the cruise line, and that company was hit very hard. the ceo said it was the worst year they had. they lost a lot of money. they cut prices for cruises in that first year. the last quarter of this last year they made $100 million. they came out of the red into the black and it looks like

they're turning things around. the prices for carnival cruises are still lower than other cruise lines out there. so they're still feeling the effects of the "costa concordia", but all signs are they're moving ahead of it. their stock prices have certainly gained since the disaster, erin. >> so many people taking cruises. they want to know some real specifics. thanks very much, miguel, for that report. out front next, lifeless, ghastly, rotten are just some of the frankly nasty and derogatory words being hurled at kate middleton. yes, kate middleton. how so is that, you ask? well, of course we'll tell you next.

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kate middleton is the most popular member of the royal family. of course that does not surprise you, i'm sure. her fans love creating tributes to her. just take a look at these. always with flowing, thick hair. she has beautiful hair. we've seen galleries pop up. that is really twisted. sorry, people. those teeth need a little whitening. she's never had an official portrait until right now. artist paul emslie was commissioned to create a portrait of the duchess. today it was unveiled. let me give you a close look. there it is. what do you think? do you like the picture? if you do, you are in the minority, because today the press slammed the painting